Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Robert Oldys was another witness. He told of the death of his commanding officer, Major Harley Wheeler, in a crash at Hawaii. Major Wheeler told him a few minutes before his fatal flight that he had been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
...causes of the Shenandoah disaster, Captain Paul Foley, U.S.N., Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry, called on her and asked her what she was going to testify-in fact requested her to "rehearse the entire statement"; she refused to do so, but said she would testify that the flight of the Shenandoah was political...
...prompt action taken by an automobile mechanic employed by the Harvard Square Garage, yesterday put to flight the perpetrators of the first recorded attempt at captive balloon stealing...
...success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...
...Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate air stations at Coco Solo and Pearl Harbor; 7) improvement in aviation training-facilities at Annapolis; 8) settlement of the flight-pay question; 9) encouragement of private airplane builders by liberality in letting naval air contracts...